Everytime a new skylander game comes out is it worth switch all your previous series skylanders to the new one, I've notice a couple advantages to keeping the linked to the spyros and even giants. The challenges you did previsously in the game before are carried with the skylander figure so his states and continue to go up. For example my zoom has about 23 challenges done from spyros adventure and additional 30 from skylander gaints. Now when I change the ownership to all of them to the gaints and when I popped in spyros adventure all my data was gone. So I couldn't do more challenges for second series skylanders on spyros

What I'm trying to say/ask is, is it worth changing there ownership to the new one because second and third series can go back and the first 2 games and do the challenges thus gaining double the stats, which makes then insane strong. I haven't even done all the challenge with my zoom and he's strong enough to beat the gaints game on the specail kaos nightmare difficulty, so I think it's worth it.

But keep in mind that the skylanders you keep linked to you first to games can only go up to the max l l for that game (spyros is Lvl 10 and gaints is Lvl 15)

The challenges you did previsously in the game before are carried with the skylander figure so his states and continue to go up. For example my zoom has about 23 challenges done from spyros adventure and additional 30 from skylander gaints. Now when I change the ownership to all of them to the gaints and when I popped in spyros adventure all my data was gone. So I couldn't do more challenges for second series skylanders on spyros

I'm a little lost here. Are you saying that changing ownership erased the heroic challenge data from Spyro's Adventure on your figurines that you claimed ownership of in Skylanders: Giants? Or are you saying that changing ownership somehow formatted your Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure game?

Regardless, I had a question I wanted to ask, which is this:

I have a Flashwing that is gold rank on both Skylanders: Giants and Skylanders: SWAP Force and who has completed a lot of heroic challenges, and I wanted to switch her over to my SWAP Force game. Is there any way to claim ownership again once you have done so once(as in, the release of the next game), or is claiming ownership a one-time choice?

-------------------"...I've been asleep for more than 1,000 years of my life, if I did the math. Technically, I think that makes me the oldest hag on the planet. Not that I'll ever act my age. Wouldn't be much fun."

I have a Flashwing that is gold rank on both Skylanders: Giants and Skylanders: SWAP Force and who has completed a lot of heroic challenges, and I wanted to switch her over to my SWAP Force game. Is there any way to claim ownership again once you have done so once(as in, the release of the next game), or is claiming ownership a one-time choice?

No. If the character isn't automatically added to your collection, go to the Skylander's screen, and then go to Manage. Ownership will be an option if the character isn't in your collection. Magic Items are automatically added into your collection regardless of any circumstances.

Ownership will be an option if the character isn't in your collection.

Is this always true? Or only once? The language you used seems to suggest it is always true, but in other words, is claiming ownership something you can do again from a different game even if the Skylander had already once had its owner re-assigned?

Specifically, if I want to re-assign my Flashwing's ownership from my Wii console's game to my Wii U console's game and if I wanted to do it again, claiming ownership of Flashwing on the next game(let's just call it Skylanders#4), could I?

-------------------"...I've been asleep for more than 1,000 years of my life, if I did the math. Technically, I think that makes me the oldest hag on the planet. Not that I'll ever act my age. Wouldn't be much fun."

Ownership will be an option if the character isn't in your collection.

Is this always true? Or only once? The language you used seems to suggest it is always true, but in other words, is claiming ownership something you can do again from a different game even if the Skylander had already once had its owner re-assigned?

Specifically, if I want to re-assign my Flashwing's ownership from my Wii console's game to my Wii U console's game and if I wanted to do it again, claiming ownership of Flashwing on the next game(let's just call it Skylanders#4), could I?

Yep! It's always an option as long as that Skylander isn't in your collection already. ^^

Great! Thanks, that really helps! Now I can really think about it, although if what Wildwallee06 said was true and they lose their heroic challenge data, that's something I need to think about...

-------------------"...I've been asleep for more than 1,000 years of my life, if I did the math. Technically, I think that makes me the oldest hag on the planet. Not that I'll ever act my age. Wouldn't be much fun."

Great! Thanks, that really helps! Now I can really think about it, although if what Wildwallee06 said was true and they lose their heroic challenge data, that's something I need to think about...

This only happens in transitions between Giants and Swap Force. In transitions between Spyro's Adventure and Giants, they keep any Heroic Challenges gained, and vice versa. But in Swap Force, since the Heroic Challenges no longer exist, the data is lost.

That makes sense. Can you at least redo and regain the stats on Giants once the data is lost?

-------------------"...I've been asleep for more than 1,000 years of my life, if I did the math. Technically, I think that makes me the oldest hag on the planet. Not that I'll ever act my age. Wouldn't be much fun."

GriffonOkay, the data isn't necessarily "lost", sorry, that was bad wording on my part. It's still on the toy, but to Swap Force, the data is unreadable since those Heroic Challenges don't exist in that game. Kind of like how S2 and S3 WowPows are unrecognizable to older games. The data's still there, but is unreadable. If you do a Heroic Challenge, for, say, Drobot in Giants (Save the Purple Chompies) and you play with Drobot on Spyro's Adventure, it will say he's already done that Heroic Challenge even if it wasn't done on Spyro's Adventure. The data is there and is readable since that Heroic Challenge exists in Spyro's Adventure. Because it doesn't exist in Swap Force it's unrecognizable, unreadable, therefore it's ignored.

In SF, you can up statistics through putting Legendary Treasures on the pedestals in Woodburrow or you can do Bonus Missions. Some of the Bonus Missions give statistical increases.

Naturally, since those heroic challenges went out the window in SWAP Force. So if I am understanding you correctly, is that to say that the heroic challenge data(and the stats they boost) still will be recognized in Giants, while the stat boosts don't transfer over to SWAP Force? I already know that those heroic challenges aren't improving Flashwing's stats in SWAP Force, but will they still increase her stats in Giants?

-------------------"...I've been asleep for more than 1,000 years of my life, if I did the math. Technically, I think that makes me the oldest hag on the planet. Not that I'll ever act my age. Wouldn't be much fun."

-------------------"...I've been asleep for more than 1,000 years of my life, if I did the math. Technically, I think that makes me the oldest hag on the planet. Not that I'll ever act my age. Wouldn't be much fun."